Polycom DOC2231A - Manual (Page 49)

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About Conferences
Different conference types are available according to their initiation modes:
reservationless conferences and scheduled conferences.
On-Demand (Reservation-less) Conferencing
Reservation-less conferencing enables participants to immediately start and
connect to an On Going Conference from their endpoint, with no advanced
scheduling. The MGC Manager offers two methods for Reservation-less
conferencing:
• Ad Hoc Conferencing
• Meeting Rooms
Ad Hoc Conferencing
In Ad Hoc conferencing, participants connect to an Ad Hoc-enabled Entry
Queue. An Entry Queue is a special routing lobby to which one or several
dial-in numbers are assigned. The participants are prompted for the
destination conference Numeric ID. If no conference with a matching
Numeric ID is running, but the participant is authorized to create a
conference, the system creates a new On Going Conference. The new
conference is created according to the conference parameters defined in a
Profile assigned to the Entry Queue. All other participants connect directly
to the newly created conference.
With this method, only the conference
Profile is created once and is used repeatedly to create numerous
conferences.
This conferencing method is often used to globally enable all employees in
an organization to start On Going Conferences from their endpoints, without
having to define the conference parameters for each employee and for each
conference.
When authentication with external database application is configured for the
Entry Queue and for the conference, the MCU verifies with the external